Just like the international gang summits in Los Angeles, Linux needs a collective, "sit-down" to discuss the future of this now formidable operating system. I'm not talking about a nice little get together with keynote speakers with high-powered, 10,000 foot views of where Linux is and where it's going.
Read more »It's Time for an International Linux Summit
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Microsoft Shares Virtualization Code With Linux
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Is this a thawing in the tensions between the two camps? New GPLv2 licensed code will enable Linux to run better on Microsoft's Hyper-V.
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Wikipedia's controversial video player coming soon
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Wikipedia users will be getting new tools for uploading, editing, and viewing video very soon. According to a Beet.TV interview with Erik Moller, who is the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, these features will be made available shortly. What's interesting, however, is the Web encyclopedia's choice of video formats and how it fits into a fracas in the browser world.
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Microsoft makes second GPLv2 release in as many days
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Microsoft has made its second release under the General Public License in two days with software for the open-source online learning system Moodle. Microsoft released the Live Services Plug-in for Moodle under the GPLv2, a move outlined in a blog post by Peter Galli, a community manager for Microsoft's Platform Strategy Group.
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Red Hat joins S&P 500 - a sign of Linux maturity
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Red Hat started off on the NASDAQ in 1999 then moved to the NYSE in 2006. Two years later, the NYSE itself moved to Linux as the underlying operating system for trading operations. While financial services are a key vertical for Red Hat, it's not the only one.
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Clutter Takes A Step Closer To 1.0 Release
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Clutter, the free software tool-kit that makes it easier to develop compelling user-interfaces that use OpenGL / OpenGL ES, is now nearing its version 1.0 release. Emmanuele Bassi with the Intel Open-Source Technology Center has announced the release of Clutter 1.0 Release Candidate 3
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Think you own your Kindle books?
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During the night of July 16th, while Amazon Kindle owners slept, Amazon was quietly deleting their copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm.
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Ubuntu Server Edition: Where’s the Official Support?
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There's no question that Ubuntu dominates the desktop-Linux world. With commanding market share and a huge user community, it's by far the most well supported and documented open-source platform in the desktop world. On servers, however, the situation is different - and Canonical needs to address it if it wants to become a real player in the server market.
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Java performance does not scale as well as C++ with multi-tasking
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Java vs C++ benchmarking rarely if ever looks at the real issue w.r.t. performance, ability to perform well within multi-tasking. In this article, multiple benchmarks are run concurrently, exposing the overhead of Java which generally at least partially slips into the cracks of extra hardware capacity on single task benchmarks.
Read more »Samba's Jeremy Allison: Take a Cue from Open Source and Drop Some Ego
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Jeremy Allison is co-creator of Samba (the other being Andrew Tridgell), and has been working on the project since its inception 16 years ago. Allison is also the Scan Samba Project Leader. He continues our discussion of open source vs.
Read more »Bordeaux 1.8.0 for Linux review
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Bordeaux 1.8.0 for Linux review, Bordeaux is a Wine GUI configuration manager that runs winelib applications. It also supports installation of third party utilities, installation of applications and games, and the ability to use custom configurations.
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Firefox 3.5.1 addresses JavaScript vulnerability and slow startups
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As announced, Mozilla has released the first update for Firefox 3.5, prompted by the disclosure of a critical security flaw related to TraceMonkey, the new JavaScript optimizer, earlier this week.
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Amazon Shows Need for Open eBook Standards
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When Amazon deleted content from Kindle Readers last week without warning or permission, they released a firestorm of criticism. Although they backed down, the same day it showed the power the proprietary format has over Kindle owners and crystallized the need for open eBook standards.
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Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” XFCE RC1 released!
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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” XFCE Community Edition RC1.
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